1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA;2. Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza de Ciencias 3, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Abstract:
A new version of Montgomery's conjecture (1971) on the estimation of Dirichlet sums is disproved by means of a modification of the idea of “short sums” (due to Bourgain, 1991). We also study the distribution of the values of Dirichlet's “long sums”.